Color your world with natures palette. Create a rainbow of vibrant, sustainable inks from the plants and flowers around you.Plant-based inks are fuller and richer in color than synthetic types: they are not one uniform color, but instead contain the whole spectrum of pigments found in abundance within each plant. They give you a far greater choice of colors, a unique palette and stunning visual results.Extracting and storing the inks ready for use is made simple in this beginner-friendly book. The 27 seasonal plant recipes, which yield 49 colors of ink, are ordered seasonally, to accompany you through the creative year. Discover: Warm yellows from daffodils in spring; Rich reds, pinks and indigo from poppies in summer; Light blue and mint green from sage in autumn; Warm orangey-browns from hazel in winter.Each recipe contains a guide to the plant used, the lightfastness of the ink created, written step-by-step instructions for extracting the ink, and